Will: Rooney, Luke March 26, 1810 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Dublin Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com March 28, 2018, 2:26 pm ROONEY, LUKE MARCH 26, 1810 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: March 26, 1810 Recorded: March 28, 2018 In the Name of God Amen I Luke Roony of Prussia Street in the County of the City of Dublin and second Son living of the late Elizabeth Roony otherwise Barrett weak in body but of sound mind memory and understanding Do make this as my last Will and testament And first I beg of my Great God thro' the merits of my blessed Redeemer Christ Jesus to forgive me my Sins and to receive my Soul into Eternal happiness And Whereas Michael Barrett late of Westminster in the City of London Gentleman deceased and who was my Maternal Uncle duly made and published his last Will and Testament in Writing bearing date about the year One thousand Eight hundred and five and appointed George Ellis of the said City of London Esquire and (Blank) Executors thereof and did thereby leave devise and bequeath among other legacies the sum of One hundred pounds to me as the nephew and one of his next of kin to be paid as soon as said Executors would settle said Testator's affairs and five hundred pounds other part of said Legacy to be paid to me on or before the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twenty one And Whereas the said Exors of the said Michael Barrett deceased have promised and agreed that as soon as the Affairs of the said testator should be properly arranged and settled that they would pay off and discharge said legacies in manner and form as by said Will is directed Now My Will is that as soon as the said Exors of my said deceased Uncle Michael Barrett shall settle and pay off to the several legatees thereunto justly and fairly entitled the one hundred pounds before mentioned to be paid to me immediately or my Executors hereinafter named after my decease and supposing the Lord shall please to call on me before I receive either the said Sum of One hundred pounds or five hundred pounds that then my Executors that then my said Executors shall pay over and dispose of the said Sum of five hundred pounds in manner and form following that is to say I give and bequeath unto my Cousin Patrick Roony of No 2 Clare Lane in the City or the County of the City of Dublin the said Sum of five hundred pounds as soon as the said Executors of my said Uncle shall pay over the same his the said Patrick Roony's receipt to be in full discharge to said Executors for the same In trust that he the said Patrick Roony shall pay over said Sum of five hundred pounds to his children lawfully begotten or to be begotten as soon as he shall think most convenient and advantageous for them in such shares and proportions as he may think fit but my Will is if the said Patrick shall die before said legacy is distributed in manner aforesaid or before his said children shall attain their respective ages of twenty one years or days of marriage which ever shall first happen that previous thereto said Patrick shall appoint two Executors and vest the said five hundred pounds in them In trust for his said children as he shall by his Will in writing direct and appoint And as to the said Sum of One hundred pounds which I expect to receive immediately the same being intended by me for some private use of my own I defer making any bequest of it as yet And Lastly I appoint the said Patrick Roony and Patrick Moran Executors of this my last Will and testament hereby revoking all former Wills or bequests by me heretofore made In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my named and affixed my seal this 26th day of March 1810 Luke Rooney (Attestation Clause) Silvester Begg (seal) Mathew Synam (seal) (Codicil directing sum of £100 to be handed to Wife Catherine Rooney) Proved at London 4 May 1829 to Patrick Rooney power reserved to other Executor PCC Prob11/1756